It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems by Marilyn Chin
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A rich, illuminating compilation of selected and new poems from Marilyn Chin, "a poet of contradictions, poignant sentiment, beat-your-ass toughness, and unexpected humor" (Los Angeles Review of Books). Spanning thirty years of dazzling work—from luminous early love lyrics to often-anthologized Asian American identity anthems, from political and subversive hybrid forms to feminist manifestos—A Portrait of the Self as Nation is a selection from one of America’s most original and vital voices. Marilyn Chin’s passionate, polyphonic poetry travels freely from the personal to the mythic, from the...
A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems by Marilyn Chin is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.
This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems aloud.
A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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